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1"Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?" Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the
2water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who,
3pausing before us, levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question. He was but shabbily apparelled in faded
4jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck. A confluent small-pox had in all
5directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have
6been dried up. "Have ye shipped in her?" he repeated. "You mean the ship Pequod, I suppose," said I, trying to gain a
7little more time for an uninterrupted look at him. "Aye, the Pequod--that ship there," he said, drawing back his whole
8arm, and then rapidly shoving it straight out from him, with the fixed bayonet of his pointed finger darted full at the
9object. "Yes," said I, "we have just signed the articles." "Anything down there about your souls?" "About what?" "Oh,
10perhaps you hav'n't got any," he said quickly. "No matter though, I know many chaps that hav'n't got any,--good luck to
11'em; and they are all the better off for it. A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon." "What are you jabbering
12about, shipmate?" said I. "He's got enough, though, to make up for all deficiencies of that sort in other chaps,"
13abruptly said the stranger, placing a nervous emphasis upon the word he. "Queequeg," said I, "let's go; this fellow has
14broken loose from somewhere; he's talking about something and somebody we don't know." "Stop!" cried the stranger. "Ye
15said true--ye hav'n't seen Old Thunder yet, have ye?" "Who's Old Thunder?" said I, again riveted with the insane
16earnestness of his manner. "Captain Ahab." "What! the captain of our ship, the Pequod?" "Aye, among some of us old
17sailor chaps, he goes by that name. Ye hav'n't seen him yet, have ye?" "No, we hav'n't. He's sick they say, but is
18getting better, and will be all right again before long." "All right again before long!" laughed the stranger, with a
19solemnly derisive sort of laugh. "Look ye; when Captain Ahab is all right, then this left arm of mine will be all right;
20not before." "What do you know about him?" "What did they tell you about him? Say that!" "They didn't tell much of
21anything about him; only I've heard that he's a good whale-hunter, and a good captain to his crew." "That's true, that's
22true--yes, both true enough. But you must jump when he gives an order. Step and growl; growl and go--that's the word
23with Captain Ahab. But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for
24three days and nights; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa?--heard nothing
25about that, eh? Nothing about the silver calabash he spat into? And nothing about his losing his leg last voyage,
26according to the prophecy. Didn't ye hear a word about them matters and something more, eh? No, I don't think ye did;
27how could ye? Who knows it? Not all Nantucket, I guess. But hows'ever, mayhap, ye've heard tell about the leg, and how
28he lost it; aye, ye have heard of that, I dare say. Oh yes, that every one knows a'most--I mean they know he's only one
29leg; and that a parmacetti took the other off." "My friend," said I, "what all this gibberish of yours is about, I don't
30know, and I don't much care; for it seems to me that you must be a little damaged in the head. But if you are speaking
31of Captain Ahab, of that ship there, the Pequod, then let me tell you, that I know all about the loss of his leg." "All
32about it, eh--sure you do?--all?" "Pretty sure." With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like
33stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:--"Ye've shipped, have ye?
34Names down on the papers? Well, well, what's signed, is signed; and what's to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it
35won't be, after all. Anyhow, it's all fixed and arranged a'ready; and some sailors or other must go with him, I suppose;
36as well these as any other men, God pity 'em! Morning to ye, shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye; I'm
37sorry I stopped ye." "Look here, friend," said I, "if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you
38are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that's all I have to say." "And it's said very well, and
39I like to hear a chap talk up that way; you are just the man for him--the likes of ye. Morning to ye, shipmates,
40morning! Oh! when ye get there, tell 'em I've concluded not to make one of 'em." "Ah, my dear fellow, you can't fool us
41that way--you can't fool us. It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him."
42"Morning to ye, shipmates, morning." "Morning it is," said I. "Come along, Queequeg, let's leave this crazy man. But
43stop, tell me your name, will you?" "Elijah." Elijah! thought I, and we walked away, both commenting, after each other's
44fashion, upon this ragged old sailor; and agreed that he was nothing but a humbug, trying to be a bugbear. But we had
45not gone perhaps above a hundred yards, when chancing to turn a corner, and looking back as I did so, who should be seen
46but Elijah following us, though at a distance. Somehow, the sight of him struck me so, that I said nothing to Queequeg
47of his being behind, but passed on with my comrade, anxious to see whether the stranger would turn the same corner that
48we did. He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging us, but with what intent I could not for the life of me
49imagine. This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat
50in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and
51the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left
52the ship the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a
53hundred other shadowy things. I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not,
54and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps. But Elijah passed on,
55without seeming to notice us. This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my
56heart, a humbug.
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